Word: shield
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...Czech parliament approves plans to deploy a U.S. missile shield facility in the nearby hills, U.S. personnel are unlikely to be welcomed as the Red Army once was. The village that has yet to shake off its Brezhnev Village nickname is hardly ready to be dubbed Bush Town...
...Still, the movie Gorgo's parting words to her husband aren't exactly "Get home safe, honey." Instead, a severe Spartette to the end, she says: "Come back with your shield...
...Gonzales stood by the decision to fire the eight U.S. attorneys and repeated his claim that politics was not a factor in the dismissals. In an apparent attempt to shield the White House, Gonzales' aides protrayed the firings as a largely DOJ operation...
...crime the accountants stand accused of is peddling iffy tax shelters, arcane financial deals that shield income from the IRS. Shelters are O.K. if they serve a true business purpose, and the KPMG gang insisted that its did. Yet over the past four years, the accountants have taken a prosecutorial beating. A Senate subcommittee publicly grilled them. The Justice Department suggested they blab without their lawyers present. KPMG, bending to government pressure, stopped covering its employees' crushing legal bills. And all this happened before any court ruled the tax shelters improper...
...chief accountant for the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said the agency was considering how to shield accounting firms from civil litigation because--get this--the Administration doesn't want the Big Four firms to become the Big Three. So, on the one hand, the Justice Department is squeezing KPMG and its former employees within an inch of their professional lives. On the other hand, the SEC is pushing for limits on lawsuits that might hurt firms like KPMG. Talk about mixed messages...